MCI Treatment Tag Overview

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MCI Treatment Tag Overview

• Presented by King County EMS

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Objectives

• Notification of a new designed tag
• Identify the differences on the tag
• Removal of all other tags in your system
• Review the distribution process

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Why are we changing?

• IMPROVE CONSISTENCY
• One style tag for every agency.
• Greater familiarization in a large scale
  incident.
• Eliminate multiple styles of tags in the system.

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Who has supported and approved the change?

• King County Fire Chiefs
• Seattle Fire Department
• NW regional pre-hospital trauma committee
• Dr. Copass HMC/Seattle Medic One
• King County EMS
• All King County Zones 1-5 ALS Reps

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FRONT side of the new tag
Top part of tag stays with patient to the
hospital.
The bottom gets torn off and held at the
transport area.
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FRONT side of the new tag
Patient info gets filled out on both top and
bottom.
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FRONT side of the new tag
Write in the rain paper
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FRONT side of the new tag
Hole to run triage tape through and/or mark
RED-YELLOW-GREEN
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FRONT side of the new tag
Sequential patient numbering
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FRONT side of the new tag
Optional patient numbering
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BACK side of the new tag

• Refers to Mass Gross decon
• Name or number of the bus, train, airplane
• Name of agent, if possible

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BACK side of the new tag

• LOC Information
• Glasgow Coma Scale
• 2 sets of vital signs

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BACK side of the new tag

• Patient Information
• Destination hospital
• Time left Transport Area

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Tag Use

• Options to numbering patients
• Write your own patient numbering
• Use the red sequential numbering
• 2. IC or the Medical Group needs to establish
  what numbering system should be used for the
  incident.
• 3. Tag number gets filled out at the funnel
  point.
• 4. Tag gets attached to patient using the colored
  triage tape.

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Distribution Process

• King County EMS will be the lead agency to
  provide treatment tags for all departments.
• Each agency will be provided an initial amount of
  tags to use.
• Additional replacement tags are to be requested
  through King County EMS.

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Additional Requests

1. Please remove all tags currently being used at
   your agency once the new tags arrive.
2. This new tag is the only approved treatment tag
   for King County.
3. Thank you for your time and effort to help
   improve our MCI system.